Posts tagged with "11.22.63"

11.22.63 S01E05 “The Truth” REVIEW
Airing in UK on FOX, Sundays, 9pm
Writer: Bridget Carpenter and Joe Henderson based on novel by Stephen King
Director: James Franco
Essential Plot points
The date is 4.8.63.
Sadie splits with Jake after hearing the Oswald sex tape.
Deke fires Jake from school for immorality.
Jake and Bill plan to observe Oswald’s attempt on Walker’s life.
Bill asks if – when their mission is done – he can come...

11.22.63 S01E02 “The Killing Floor” review
Airing in UK on FOX, Sundays, 9pm
Writers: Bridget Carpenter, Quinton Peeples, based on novel by Stephen King
Director: Frederic OE Toye)
Essential Plot Points
The episode opens with an unsettling scene of young Harry being bullied by other children.
Jake stays in a new boarding house in Harry’s home town. He’s here looking for Harry’s father, Frank.
Jake meets Frank at the local bar...

11.22.63 Season 1 Episode 1: The Rabbit Hole
Airing in UK on: FOX, Sunday, 9pm
Writer: Bridget Carpenter, based on novel by Stephen King
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Essential Plot Points
The first episode begins with a story, told by Harry the janitor at a school in Lisbon in Maine, USA. It’s about murder of his family by his father when he was young.
Jake Epping is his friend and English teacher.
Jake signs his divorce papers with his...

FOX has announced 11.22.63, the time travel mini-series based on the excellent Stephen King novel about a man trying to prevent the assassination of JFK, will debut in the UK on FOX UK on Sunday 10 April. Here’s the US trailer…
The epic new nine-hour event series has been produced by JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros Television. Academy Award-winner Kevin Macdonald (The Last King Of Scotland, State Of Play) directs and serves...

The new trailer for the JJ Abrams-produced TV mini-series adaptation of Stephen King’s time travel fable 11.22.63 gives a much better idea of what the story’s all about for people who haven’t read the book (which is one of King’s best in recent years). It also shows that visually, the series is going for a ’6os-squared look, the kinds of idealised early part of the decade that the ad men in Mad Men couldn’t have created with more rose-tinted...

Here’s the clever new trailer for the upcoming Hulu mini-series based on Stephen King’s best novel of the past few years, 22.11.63. We say clever because it uses a simple technique – running footage backwards – to very good effect. The series is all about time travel, y’see. In essence it’s that old SF chestnut: if you could travel back in time to prevent a tragedy – in this case, the assassination of President John F Kennedy – would...

The idea of travelling back in time to prevent the assassination of president John F Kennedy was hardly a new one by the time Stephen King published 11.22.63 back in 2011 – it had been the stuff of countless pulp novels, comic book storylines and episodic TV episodes (Quantum Leap did its own memorable version). Yet somehow, King managed to turn this genre cliché into one of his most compelling novels in years.
One of the reasons was the number...